Environment
[ɪn'vaɪrənm(ə)nt;en-] or [ɪn'vaɪrənmənt]
Definition
(noun.) the area in which something exists or lives; 'the country--the flat agricultural surround'.
(noun.) the totality of surrounding conditions; 'he longed for the comfortable environment of his living room'.
Typed by Hester--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) Act of environing; state of being environed.
(n.) That which environs or surrounds; surrounding conditions, influences, or forces, by which living forms are influenced and modified in their growth and development.
Typed by Ewing
Examples
- Then we make a division between a self and the environment or world. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- Of his immediate surroundings, his telescope is most intimately his environment. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- The first office of the social organ we call the school is to provide a simplified environment. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- We are perhaps apt to emphasize the control of the body at the expense of control of the environment. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- In the year 1896 three important advances were made in man's mastery of his environment. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- For while it is illuminating to see how environment moulds men, it is absolutely essential that men regard themselves as moulders of their environment. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Education is not infrequently defined as consisting in the acquisition of those habits that effect an adjustment of an individual and his environment. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- The answer, in general formulation, is: By means of the action of the environment in calling out certain responses. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- The savage is merely habituated; the civilized man has habits which transform the environment. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- It takes place through the intermediary of the environment. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- Life is a self-renewing process through action upon the environment. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- It is an active control of the environment through control of the organs of action. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- The other point is the necessity of a social environment to give meaning to habits formed. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- Tarzan of the Apes had a man's figure and a man's brain, but he was an ape by training and environment. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- The environment can at most only supply stimuli to call out responses. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- Whether we permit chance environments to do the work, or whether we design environments for the purpose makes a great difference. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- The variety of peoples and environments, their contrast with familiar scenes, furnishes infinite stimulation. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- Whoever is removing the stunting environments of our occupations is doing the fundamentals of reform. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- The task is turned from the damming and restricting of wants to the creation of fine environments for them. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- We are given to separating from each other the physical and social environments in which we live. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
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